2020 - ANNUAL REPORT HEADSTREAMS 2019 Committed to shaping "a world where every person has opportunities to realise their inherent potential to live a positive, confident, intentional and socially productive life.” Contents I. CO-FOUNDERS SHARE .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 3 II. JOURNEY OFTHE ORGANISATION IN 2019-2020 ....................................................................................................................................................... 4 HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEAR ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 5 TEAM BEHIND THE PROGRAMS ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 6 III. KEY PROGRAMS................................................................................................................................................................................................... 7 I. AALAMBA ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 7 A. BACHELOR OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION (B.VOC.) IN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ................................................................... 7 B. JEEVANAM – AN INTEGRATED HEALTH, EDUCATION & ENVIRONMENT INITIATIVE ...................................................................................... 7 C. AALAMBA INTERNSHIPS ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 8 D. EMPLOYABILITY PREPARATION TRAINING ........................................................................................................................................................... 8 II. ACADEMIC COURSE IN PLAY AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT ................................................................................................................................ 8 III. ARIVU - DISHA ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 9 IV. PROGRAMME IN PLAY AND LEARNING (PIPAL) AT THE OBSERVATION HOMEFOR BOYS AND GIRLS HOME ............................................... 10 V. PIPAL LEAF LIVELIHOOD PROJECT ..................................................................................................................................................................... 10 VI. TACKLE CARAVAN ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 11 VII. COVID -19 RELIEF WORK .............................................................................................................................................................................. 11 IV. OTHER EVENTS .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 12 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO NURTURING CHILDREN AND YOUTH ...................................................... 12 LET’S PLAY 2019 ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 12 RANGOTRI 2019 ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 13 TACKLE FEST 2020 ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 13 V. WORKSHOPS AND TRAININGS ................................................................................................................................................................................ 14 PLAYFUL LEARNING WORKSHOP .................................................................................................................................................................................. 14 TRAIN THE TEACHERS’ WORKSHOP .............................................................................................................................................................................. 14 WORKSHOP FOR WOMEN IN CRISIS ............................................................................................................................................................................. 14 PLAYFUL LEARNING WORKSHOP FOR CRY SCHOOLS .................................................................................................................................................... 14 TACKLE CARAVAN LIVELIHOOD INITIATIVE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN .................................................................................................................... 15 PLAYFUL LEARNING WORKSHOP ON COMMUNITY OUTREACH ................................................................................................................................... 15 SELF-DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP ................................................................................................................................................................................ 15 SCIENCE WORKSHOP FOR GOVERNMENT SCHOOL STUDENTS..................................................................................................................................... 16 WORKSHOP FOR WOMEN EMPOWERMENT THROUGH PLAY ...................................................................................................................................... 16 VI. MOMENTS OF PRIDE ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 17 MR. AZIM PREMJI’S VISIT ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 17 COMMUNITY WALK ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 17 PROJECT WORK ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 18 SESSION ON BUILDING ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET ................................................................................................................................................. 18 AN OPEN DAY FOR LEARNING ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 18 BATTLE AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE ............................................................................................................................................................................ 18 VIII. TESTIMONIALS .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 19 2 I. CO-FOUNDERS SHARE It is over 12 years since Headstreams began. All through, the consistent desire has been to discover/innovate ways to enable participants to live meaningful lives. Facilitating the realization of their inherent potential to do this, has been the thread that runs through all our work – be it related to education, livelihoods or community development. This year we explored how the practice of “Habits of Mind (HoM)” can best be introduced among children and youth. We enabled this by providing safe facilitated learning environments underpinned by free choice and goal-setting paradigms. Our belief is that this can leverage capacities for problem solving, self-awareness and empathy. Constant systematic reflection is part of the process, and this is already yielding valuable affirmations, insights and challenges for us as facilitators. For instance, this is the cumulative effect one session headstreams’ facilitated had. While conducting a HoM session on the habit of “Persistence” in a Home for Boys (who had had a brush with the law), one of them asked, “What if we use our persistence to pursue illegal things?”Later, discussing as a team, we were grateful that the boy was able to voice his thoughts, given the safe space that had been created for the children to freely share. We also realized that by sharing his thoughts, this boy was inviting us into a dialogue regarding a matter that was deeply personal and troubling for him. The sub-text of this question was a challenge: “Do you have anything meaningful to say/offer which can make me alter